42 native or common elementary sounds

Anything GoesJan van den Heuvel4 May 20229

Does this study about the 42 elementary English sound bring us further? F. e. in the (classification) rubrication of the vowel sounds.
The document is larger than 2 mb so I can’t upload it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mk5l1yuy9n4nhmj/42%20english%20sounds.png?dl=0

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SEVEN THOUSAND WORDS OFTE N MISPRONOUNCED A COMPLETE HAN DBOOK OF DIFFICU LTI ES I N ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION INCLUDING AN UNU UA LLY LARGE NUMBER OF PROPER NAMES AND WORDS AND PHRASES FROM FOREIGN LANGUAGES

WILLIAM HENRY P. PHYFE (1893)

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Jan van den Heuvel

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